Some more text!!!!!! In 2005, one year into her job as San Francisco district attorney, Kamala Harris was showing a new hire around the office.<\/p>\n
Ms. Harris had recruited Lateefah Simon, a 28-year-old racial justice activist, to lead a new program aimed at keeping first-time drug offenders out of jail. As the two women walked the halls, they stopped in front of a wall lined with photographs of Ms. Harris\u2019s predecessors \u2014 all of them white men.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe expectation of our community is that I\u2019m going to fix all the havoc,\u201d Ms. Harris said, according to Ms. Simon\u2019s recollection. \u201cThey\u2019re going to want me to fix all the racism, all the dysfunction, in the next four years.\u201d<\/p>\n
But in reality, Ms. Harris said, change will happen \u201cbit by bit.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comment underscored the political philosophy that has guided Ms. Harris\u2019s style of governance for decades. It is among the more striking contradictions of Ms. Harris\u2019s candidacy: While she would bring about historic change if elected, as the first woman, the first Asian American and the second Black person to be hold the office, she is not offering sweeping change in policy. She is at heart an institutionalist, defined by a deliberate style, focused on granular impacts over broad society shifts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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